COA has become more social! Board Member Corey Leamy has taken the lead in developing our new COA Instagram account, @ct_birds. Follow us to get news on workshops, events, personalities, special birds and more. We are also on Facebook (facebook.com/ctbirding) as both the official COA page and the public group where over 2200 members have … Read more
Smith’s Longspur Honorable Mention: Gray Kingbird State Year List for Connecticut 2022 By the end of the month of October 2022, Connecticut had recorded 329 species on eBird. Five new species were added during October (see the image below, which is an eBird SYL list sorted by date), and Smith’s Longspur was the 327th species … Read more
In case you missed our latest COA email news (read how to avoid missing emails here), here is a copy of what was sent. Latest News from COA A new season is upon us and we have three messages to share with you below: a new issue of the COA Bulletin; an upcoming identification workshop. and a … Read more
Black Rail STATE YEAR LIST for 2022 During June 2022 our eBird “State Year List” added only THREE additional species for the year: Common Gallinule, Red Crossbill, and Black Rail (this rail was reported to eBird but is NOT even shown on this eBird listing below because eBird classifies it as a “Regionally Sensitive” species … Read more
COA’s Mabel Osgood Wright award this year went to Creative Media Specialist and Photographer Paul Fusco, who has been with CT DEEP Wildlife Division for over 33 years. The award and honoree were featured in a recent issue of Connecticut Wildlife magazine. Learn more in CT Wildlife MayJune 2022
Arctic Tern Photo credit: Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) Bantam Lake, 05.13.2022 Larry Master www.masterimages.org STATE YEAR LIST for 2022: During May birders reported FORTY-FOUR additional species, bringing the state year list up to 295 species. During January birders reported 175 bird species, which initialized this year’s eBird CT “state year list.” FOUR species were added … Read more
Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle) The photo above by Joe McNally is from the COA 2022 Annual Meeting keynote talk by George Divoky about a study of the subspecies Mandt’s Black Guillemot in Alaska. No photo of the Connecticut bird is available. STATE YEAR LIST, for Connecticut, for 2022: During January birders reported 175 bird species, … Read more
Photo above: Short-billed Gull, March 20,2022. Long Beach, Stratford, CT. Photo for eBird by Frank Mantlik Short-billed Gull (Larus brachyrhynchus) During January 175 bird species were added to initialize this year’s eBird CT “state year list”. Four species were added in February, and in March EIGHTEEN additional new species were added to our state year … Read more
Common (Kamchatka) Gull During January 175 bird species were added to this year’s eBird CT “state year list”, and in February only four new species were added to our state year list (bringing the state year list up to 179 species). Here are those four species, in the proposed rank order of noteworthiness (regardless of how … Read more
Thick-billed Murre The top Bird of the Month (BOTM) bird for January 2022 was Thick-billed Murre (two different individual birds –and now a third one at Harkness on February 2). One was spotted and photographed on Jan.17 by Patrick Dugan (at Cove Island Park) and the second was spotted and photographed at the other end … Read more